Bandalan Doce Quotes & Sayings

The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover's knot. — Frederick Buechner

A dear and long-time friend, ... asked me, "Jack, how long does it usually take you to write a book?" I replied, "Of course it depends on the project and its requirements, each book has its own rules. But for a statement to the world at large, once I've thought a book through and written it in my mind, it takes me around a week or so, depending on this and that, ordinarily at the rate of a chapter a day, but I've had some two-chapters day and some chapters have taken two days. And then of course there is revision, but around a week is about right." He seemed surprised, and I was surprised by his surprise, so I thought, maybe I'm wrong. I went home and wrote this book, at the perfectly normal pace of a chapter a day, as usual ... — Jacob Neusner

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years. — Dan Brown

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view. — David Henry Hwang

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home. — Manju Kapur

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? — Simon Cheshire

Many middle managers remain middle managers, failing to get promoted, because they know how to work with people below them, but not with people above them. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one. — Carol W. Greider

Envy, jealousy, revenge and negativity are some of the basic instinct of women. They cannot help it. We prefer negative thoughts at first place due to the feeling of insecurity. — Himmilicious

I love you, she told him, and he knew that this was true, and she knew that he believed her; but when she said it she saw the chain around his ankle, a length of links that let him wander, but not far. She did not see the chain around her own ankle, because love is blind. — Sonya Hartnett

There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate. — Frederick Lenz

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. — David Oyelowo

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West. — Edith Head